Gail Kim was on an episode of 'Keepin it 100 with Konnan' on Westwood One’s The Jericho Network. On the podcast, Gail said that Impact Wrestling have their eye on Io Shirai. You can listen to the interview here.

Someone brought her name up to me and they said, "Hey, we needed Japanese wrestlers, that would be awesome". And so I asked Rebel, because I heard she came from Stardom, so Rebel went over there and she went and wrestled and trained really hard and I said, "Hey, have you heard of this girl? Did you work with her in Stardom?" and she said "Yes" and she just put her over huge. She said, "She is so good, and when she is comfortable with a girl, they go balls to the wall". And she said, "You would be so impressed".

That's the one thing that I've noticed that there's kind of a lack of right now. We don't have a high flyer in Impact.